Two Exhibitions ‘Life on the Silver Screen: The Fascinating Story of Indian Cinema’ and ‘The Rise of Digital India’ to tour Indonesia and Malaysia

As a part of Festival of India celebrations in Indonesia & Malaysia, two travelling exhibitions on ‘Life on the Silver Screen: The Fascinating Story of Indian Cinema’ and ‘The Rise of Digital India’ developed by National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) an autonomous body under Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India will be opening in the Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia on 28th February 2015. From Indonesia, the exhibitions will travel to various cities of Malaysia such as Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Malacca from 18th April – 30th June 2015.

The travelling exhibition Life on the Silver Screen: The Fascinating Story of Indian Cinema takes a visitor through an absorbing journey of a century of Indian Cinema in a story telling mode with the help of visuals and graphics, film clippings, artefacts/replica, interactive multimedia and much more. The exhibition consisting of about 60 exhibits, is divided into the sections ‘Cinema before Cinema, The Beginning, Sound Era, The New Nation and Its Cinema, The Bombay Film Industry, The Indian New Wave, Indian Film Music, Linguistic Multiplicity in Indian Cinema and Cinematic Connection between India and the South East Asia’ covering a space of 400 square meters.

The exhibition ‘The Rise of Digital India’ showcases the use of computing and application and use of digital technologies in India after independence touching the lives of millions of Indians in areas such as agriculture, power generation, weather forecasting, ecommerce, atomic energy, space, communication, e-governance etc. The exhibition has about 70 exhibits covering an area of 450 Sq. meter and is divided into the sections such as ‘India: A culture of information’, ‘First Steps into modernity’’, ‘Maturing of an information civilization’, ‘Impacts on the society’ and ‘IT and Space Science partners in development’. Use of visuals and graphics, film clippings, artefacts/replica and interactive multimedia has been effectively made in the exhibition.

The exhibitions are aimed to develop a strong cultural bonding between India, Indonesia and Malaysia.

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Date: February 19, 2015